SEO title in category page

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Post by exentric » Tue Jan 31, 2012 5:54 pm

I had to come up with a quick fix for the seo title in the category pages and didn't want to pay for an addon for this.
also had no time to add another variable and play with the database etc.
Here is the quick fix so you can have a better title for the category pages instead of the category name
open controller/common/header.php
find

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$this->data['categories'][] = array(
'name'     => $category['name'],

and replace with

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$title_array = explode(' ', $category['name']);
$first_word = $title_array[0];
$this->data['categories'][] = array(
'name'     => $first_word,

What this does is that it grabs the first word in the category title to display in the menu,
so you can have a really long description in the category title which will be displayed in the browser for that category helping the SEO,
but will only display the first word of the title in your menu as to not mess it up

hope someone else finds this interesting

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exentric

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